as in corpse
a dead body medical students who train by using cadavers

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Recent Examples of cadaver These researches obtained and analyzed tissue from cadavers from 2016 and 2024. Sheah Rarback, Miami Herald, 13 Mar. 2025 An extensive search was done over the weekend, including cadaver dogs, drones, and a dive team, but no additional clues turned up, authorities said. Noelle Alviz-Gransee, Kansas City Star, 10 Mar. 2025 In the earliest days of Western science, dissection of both animals and human cadavers laid the groundwork for modern surgery and medicine. Celia Ford, Vox, 3 Mar. 2025 Civilians, divers and cadaver dogs all assisted with the search, but to no avail, according to the reports. Abigail Adams, People.com, 3 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for cadaver
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corpse
Noun
  • Look down and see the five little roach corpses and six live roaches on the ground in the bar and the other three on the ground in kitchen storage.
    David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 9 May 2025
  • Every morning, prisoners lined up for inspection alongside the corpses of those who had died in the night heaped in a pile next to them.
    Paul Hockenos, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 May 2025

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“Cadaver.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cadaver. Accessed 23 May. 2025.

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